- Laptops have a problem.
They're hot, loud and kinda slow.
Which is more like three problems.
But today we are gonna solve all of them at once.
In this ordinary looking brown box here,
is the Eluktronic's Liquid Propulsion Package
or, 'Lil PP' as I like to call it.
It's a water cooling ad-on that can apparently drop
a laptop's temperatures by 20 degrees.
But I am gonna have to see that to believe it.
I'm seeing it.
I'm still not sure if I believe it.
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Now this is not the first time a laptop
has been water cooled.
And it's not even the first time
we've seen a water cooled laptop.
The ASUS GX 800 had this massive dock
to keep its dual GTX 1080s
from freaking desoldering themselves.
And we have actually water-cooled
the Alienware Area 51M, twice.
Incredibly it survived.
- [Alex] Sort of. - Sort of.
What's different about the Eluktronics LPP
is that the price isn't super out there
compared to a normal laptop.
Wow, it's really light actually kind of feels cheap.
The watercooler is only $200, although yeah,
that's not that cheap,
but it's a lot better than the $5,000 premium
that a ASUS charged for the GX 800, I guess.
And the script just says, "Yolo vlog here."
So I guess this is where we install it.
Hey there's really not much to it, hey.
Can I open it?
- [Alex] Not yet. - No?
I want to open it though.
It looks like there's clips.
Oh, it definitely has nasty plastic clips on it.
So far I have broken zero of the clips.
Almost zero of the clips.
So... look at that,
we've got some anti-vibration foam around the pump.
We've got a 120 millimeter radiator.
We've got a reservoir that is actually
very thoughtfully designed and implemented,
it's right above the pump.
So it's always getting-
even if it evaporated a bunch of the water away,
it's always gonna be getting the freshest,
leased and bubbly water.
You've got a little window on the front
where you can monitor your coolant level.
That's really convenient.
And then over on the other side, you've got,
is this worth praying off just to see the one 120 mil fan?
Oh wow, this one's coming off way easier.
Why did I even need a tool before?
There it is, 120 millimeter fan.
And a little control board
that's going to be distributing power to our pump
and our fan.
And then just got a single DC input at the back there,
probably 12 volt if I had to guess.
- [Alex] You just take the laptop power,
plug it in the back and pass it through.
- It passes through power to the laptop?
How the F does that work?
Oh, I see.
So it just like siphons off some of the power being passed
through this. Just thing that just is sticking out here.
- Yeah.
- I've seen dumber things in terms of coolant routing.
Everything's like smart.
They have someone there that is sensible and like those
water cooling, like even just little things, right?
Like having the fittings up at the top,
that's gonna allow the air to bleed out
of it much more easily.
So you've got it coming in this way, coming up here,
going through the radiator and then coming out to the top of
the reservoir,
that's gonna create very little turbulence,
which is gonna create very few bubbles
in the reds to be sucked back into the pump.
I like it. I mean,
this could be the world's cheapest crappiest pump
for all I know but,
at least the layout of the loop is thoughtful.
I don't know if $200 is what I would want
to pay for AIO tier hardware.
But something to consider is that this is gonna be a
pretty low volume product I would imagine.
And something's got to account for the tooling costs of
creating these plastic molds.
Huh? Look at that.
That did it say whatever you want about the cooling solution
though? The SSD in here, it looks pretty good.
Gen four by four Samsung SSD.
What else we got shaken here?
This looks like 32 gigs of DDR four.
Wait, is this DDR five?
Oh cool.
4,800. Oh,
are we even allowed to like talk about this hardware yet?
'Cause this would be 12th gen yes. 12th gen.
- Yes (indistinct)
- Oh, oh.
There's a note in here. Important.
This is pre-production hardware and the CPU and GPU
are under embargo.
We can show temps and power draw,
nothing else or Nvidia and Intel will light a big bag of poo
on fire and leave it on our front doorstep.
Read you loud and clear.
Now that I'm done getting distracted by the Chinese,
let's turn our attention to the star of the show.
With the integrated water cooling,
the aluminum heat sinks are enough
to effectively cool the laptop.
But what I'm imagining is that when you add the water
cooling system, the fans won't have to work as hard,
which should theoretically make it quieter.
And your internal temps should get lower. I mean, I, I,
I can see how this could conceivably work. Look at this.
You've got contact with the CPU right here and it runs all
the way over all three of these heat pipes and comes over to
the GPU and then even runs over the area where your video
memory and your VRMs probably are,
unless the VRMs over here and then comes out,
back across the CPU and out it goes.
Electronics what do they claim? 20 degrees improvement.
- Yep.
- Wow.
Now, to be clear,
that's not enough that you could
just run it on water cooling.
Like these tubes are very secondary compared to the heat
pipes that make up the air cooling system.
It's just that the biggest challenge in a laptop is how
little space you have to work with.
So the heat sinks are all these crazy small and the fans are
crazy inefficient because they have to be these super low
profile fans.
This takes that and ideally solves both of those problems.
Nice. Big radiator.
Nice big fan. So the tech can?
- Yeah.
- Hey, I recognized the car.
- Yeah. That's even the color we have.
- Yeah. Like the exact one.
Could I grow? It looks better in person.
Well, it didn't take us long to thermal throttle.
It already detected thermal throttling. So that's cool.
We reached a maximum of 88 degrees on the CPU.
How's our GPU doing?
82.3 power 130 watt.
Alex has already run more scientific versions of these
benchmarks, but I just want to experience it.
Oh, well that was easy.
That really that's the seal. Okay.
I have one more bit of advice for the engineers that
electronics.
I would like to see a bit more of a permanent top seal
because this is the sort of thing that if left unattended a
little sibling or a pet could easily knock over.
And if the water did in fact come out,
it could easily make its way to being sucked into the fans
of your laptop. I don't like that.
See,
this is why brands should send us products before release.
Like the number of things like that, that we could prevent.
They just sent it to us on the second to last revision.
Like here's an example. I might've told them, well,
this would have to be at an earlier stage,
but I might've told them to put these on the back,
so that the tubes aren't sticking out the front,
this end appears to be just a quick connect.
So, oh, look at that.
That's actually kind of awesome.
Then you just pull back here and nothing pops out.
Wow. This has a very engineering sample vibe to it.
They literally just CA glued two different diameters of
tubing together to make this filler for it.
I mean, for me,
I only live once, so I'm not gonna use it.
- But Jesus Christ don't do that.
- No, I, I will use it.
I will use it. I will actually use it for change.
I'm very offended that this is here by the way,
instead of an LTT store.com water bottle,
eight water bottles. Keep your drinks Cool.
You even cooler.
Yeah. This would be not the greatest job in the world.
I feel like I'd get better at it though.
- Hey Linus! Can you gain now?
No!
- No, I have to fill up my cup. Oh,
I think I've finished filling it. All right.
I'm gonna try to power it on you ready?
Okay. There's some unfortunate news though.
The lap hump is quiet.
But this thing is fricking loud.
Okay. Let's see if we can solve that.
I would not recommend filling it all the way,
because this event here, got you can see that,
it's, it stays open.
I am super confused right now.
There's no way it is supposed to be this loud.
So we can monitor the fan, but can we control the fan?
Not that I can see,
what a let down.
I am so disappointed right now. Shut up!
You know, just shut up.
Shut up, shut up.
Just shut up.
What the complexity of this board in here.
It seems like it should be able to handle fan control.
Okay, Alex, I'm doing it.
Here's what we're gonna do.
- What, what are you doing?
- I'm controlling the fan speed
and I'm controlling the pump,
getting them both at a reasonable level.
Are you seriously changing game settings right now
while I have my thumb freaking burning on a fan.
- Okay. So let's see CPU hit a maximum of 80 degrees,
although it seems like it was drawing on an average
of 55 Watts instead of the 45 that it was before.
- That's cool.
- How's our GP doing.
- GPU max of 66.9. So that's way better.
- Yeah.
- And it's been drawing 127.
Looks like a hundred and average 125. So about the same,
although that's probably power limited.
- Why Justin, so let down right now.
- It sounds broken.
- It really does sound broken. I think it must must've.
- Yeah, it might be broken.
So I have confirmed that it is broken
and should not sound like that.
- Cool.
But that doesn't account for that it has no speed control.
- What is working though?
It works great. Like, look at this.
- Yes. This is wonderful.
It's a lot better.
- It's a lot, a lot like,
look at this sustained 100 Watts on the CPU.
It was like 50 before.
- Yeah.
- It's a massive difference.
- That's pretty cool.
It's like it's helping out the CPU the most.
- Well, I'm guessing the GPU temps are way lower.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
(laughs)
- Wall wall.
That's awesome. Like 58 degrees.
- Massive drop in GPU temps and literally doubled
your CPU power. Like not bad.
Just has to work.
- Not a perfect product, but when it works, boy,
is this ever a fast laptop that gets even faster
when you hook it up to the external cooling system?
They've just definitely got a couple of little wrinkles,
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If you guys enjoyed this video,
go check out the one where we water cooled in Alienware
with a weird thing we found on alley express.
It cost way more and didn't work nearly as well.
I really think they're onto something.
The SCATA iron wrinkles.